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Scars remain, and the
memory of the past, to
remind me of the good
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Toad for the past twelve years, have noticed
Ayers sarsaparilla advertised in all parts
of the United States, and always take pleas -
are la Wiling what good it did for me."
For the cure of ail diseases originating In
impure blood, the best remedy Is
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28th, 1894.
A SUFFOLK SlREET HALLOWEEN,
Civflizin people in poor and bed
quarters of great cities, through the
medium of genii,: and Aga: table stn..
rounding's, is one of the sperialtios of
Theosophy. Su'Itek street d 14 I it nt e N-
eedy resent ciellizatimebut it took coils
ly at first to the reading room
boarding house for working girls 'flieu
sophy set before it. Surat thiog's, b
good, they might 5t81111, NVIth its r..11.11't
decree; and then it went on calmly read-
ing its Russian and Polish; and ltalein
mid Hebrew, end all the othoo lan-
gnages necessary to its inulticOored
taste and requirements. It was (tit re
ly owing to the witcheries of the Ho:-
lowe'en 1111(1 t110 itte011SIStencie1( 1
fling little god called Cupid that Theo
suphy got its first boom on Su o.!
street.
That morning the yoneg Inds of the
new reading room had said to Anita.
the fruit:sellernhat she would gi vo a lit-
tle Halloweeu entortsitimmitia rim
evening if she wee.; only verteim of a
iew guests from the 1 eig.d,or.100,1. This
Anita told to honest Wong Tsai the
laundryinan,who in turn tell it to all Ins
custemers, and toward night it bore
fruit.
. The boarding hous•i and r
room, no more time the boxed off floor
of a huge warehouse, were up a ini;sh
flight of' steps like :i ladder The youeg
lady itt charge of them both, the rend.
ing room gi rl, got them i bountiful
order, and when at 5 o'elock somehody
knocked at the door, she said, "Come
in," quite gleefully. A tall, slim girl in
a platn brown dress and witl.' n shawl
over her head, responded. She had a
skin like the heart of a. jessamine flower
and the sublime brow of the Sistine
Madonna. But when she spoke, though
low and gentle, her voice was a musical
suggestion of only East New York.
Her name WAS Emily Anderson.
"Emily," she said, and she was a paper
box maker, living just around the cor-
ner with her widowed mother, and she
AND THEN CAME EMILY'S TURN.
had heard all about the Halloween enter-
tainment, and she wanted to know if
anybody could come who was respect-
able and knew how to behave,
"Yes; won't you come ?" said the
reading room girl,
"Well, 1 guess I will," said Emily,
after a moment. "And maybe. I'll got
some other girls to come and a young
feller or two ; but you needn't be atria
of any scrappin' going on. I can keep
them as good as gold! You see I"
The reading room girl said she knew
she could. Then they both began talk -
big as if they were. old friends, mid
Emily told the secret that was weighing
ou her mind.
She had broken with her sweetheart,
who though not exactly "tough,' had a
quick temper, and was given to oc-
casional "sprees." "To tell the truth,"
admitted the lovely madonna, frankly,
"that's just why I want to come here
to -it ight.
'There's going to be a dance round
to the Sullivans—pretty bad egg. Joe
Sullivan, just loves whisky—and if I go,
Dave'll be sure to be tbere—his name is
David Finn, and he's a plumber, end
dead sure he'd pick a row with anybody
just to make me speak to him. But 'I
ain't ever ngoin' to do it. I'm just
dead Wel: of rowdies, and 111 never
marry none on earth. I've just broke
with him for good, I have, and I'd go to
the ends of creation to jump the sight of
him!"
Then Emily hoped that 'if any of the
"boys" should come that night the
voting litdN wmfidn't make them "mad'
by talking religion.
'Then she went down the steps sniffing
suspieionsly.
It was quite plain to see that though
the hot tempered and spree -loving
Daye had leg.; the madonnas : respect,
he had still a warm place in her wo-
man's heart.
At 8.R in the evening, true to her
word. Emily went back to her boarding
house, but with a big, brown, good looli-
ieg yomns man alone. Who, but Mr.
David Finn, the plumber himself. The
rowdy, broken with, discarded sweet-
heart!
She presented him cooly, and without
other comment than that "the rot of
them" wonld go to the Sullivan dance,
blitt fell into silence.
The reading room gir) and a tall
young lady in a fashionable pink dress,
who had come in to help with the Hal-
loween festivities, tried to draw her out
In vain, She would say "Yes" and
"No," mid then go back totter thinking,
looking all the while like some beautiful
holy picture.
he disgraced Dave, on the contrary,
proved a genial guest, and with a sur-
prising.talent Or roasting chestnuts and
apples just to the point. He was a win.
rung rascal, too, on hie own ' account,
with a curly, brown head and a big boy
guffaw that would have touched a heart
of stone. Yet at 10 o'clock Emily was
still strangely silent.
She (21(1noteven smile. not until the
secon'tl masculine guest of the evening
arranged a long row of twelve candles
in little t4)tiA props on the floor, and lit
them.
This osettlentan had come all the way
from II:rlem to keep the peace on Suf-
folk street, if it should be necessary
and he now informed the ladies that
wnEN CHRIST WAS BORN
DR, TALMAGe Gives A VIVID DE-
SCRIPTION QF THE HOLY LAND,
Magnificent Description and Comparieon
Between Past anti Modern Ager. -The
Difierenee Between Thent—What MIA
Century Work Should Be.
BROoKLYN, Nov. 18. —The sermon
selected for to -day is on the gardens
and public works of Israel's magnificent
King, and the text, Ecclesiastes 2: 4-6:
"I made me great works, I budded me
houses, I planted me vineyards, I made
me gardens and orchards, and planted
trees in them of all kinds of fruits; I
made me pools of water to water there-
with the wood that bringeth forth
trees." Dr. Talinage said :
A spring morning and before break-
fast at Jerusalem : A king with robes
snowy white, in chariot decked with
gold drawn by eight horses, high -
mottled, and housings as brilliant as if
scolloped out of that very sunrise, and
like the wind for speed, followed by a
regiment of Archers on horseback with
hands on gilded bow, and arrows with
steel points flashing in the sun, clad
from head to foot in Tyrian purple, and
black hair sprinkled with gold -dust, all
dashing down the road, the horses at
full run, the reins loose on their necks,
and the crack of whips, and the halloo
of the reckless cavalcade putting the
miles at defiance.
Who is it and what is it? King Solo-
mon taking an outing before breakfast,
from Jerusalem, to his gardens and
parks and orchards and reservoirs, six
miles down the road towards Hebron.
What a contrast between that and my-
self on that very road one morning, last
December, going afoot, for our plain
vehicle turned back for photographic
apparatus forgotten. Wo on the way to
find what is called Solomon's Pools, the
ancient waterworks of Jerusalem and
the gardens of a king nearly three
thousand years ago. We cross the aque-
duct again and again, and hero we are
at the three great reservoirs, not ruins
of reservoirs, but the reservoirs them-
selves, that Solomon built three millen-
niums ago for the purpose of catching
the mountain streams, and passing
them to Jerusalem to slake the thirst of
the city, and also to irrigate the most
glorious range of gardens that ever
bloomed with all colors or breathed with
all redolence, for Solomon was the
greatest horticulturist, the greatest
botanist, the greatest ornithologist, the
greatest capitalist, and the greatest
scientist of his century.
Come over the piles of gray rock, and
here wo aro at the first of the three
reservoirs, which are on three great
levels, the .base of the top reservoir
higher than the top of the second, the
base of the second reservoir higher than
the top of the thirds so arranged that
the waters gathered from several sour-
ces above shall descend froin basin to
basin, the sediment of the water de-
posited in each of the three, so that by
the time It gets down to the aqueduct
which is to take it to Jerusalem, it has
had three filtering -8, and is as pure as
when the clouds rained it. Wonderful
specimens of masonry are these three
reservoirs. The white cement fasten-
ing the blocks of stone together is now
just as when the trowels three thousand
years ago smoothed the layers. Tho
highest reservoir S80 feet by 229; the
second, 423 feet by 160; and the lowest
reservoir 589 feet by 169; and deep
enough and wide enough, and mighty -
enough to float an ocean steamer.
On that December morning, we saw
the water, riding down frora reservoir
to reservoir, and can well understand
how in this neighborhood the imperial
gardens were one great blossom, and
the orchard one great basket of fruit,
and that Solomon in his palace, writing
the Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastes,,
may have been drawing ,illustrations
from what he had seen that very morn-
ing in the royal gardens when he allud-
ed to melons, and mandrakes, and apri-
cots and grapes and pomegranates and
figs and spikenard and cinnamon and
calamus and camphire and "apple trees
among the trees of the wood," and the
almond trees as flourishing,and to myrrh
and frankincense and represented Christ
as "gone down into His gardens, and
the beds of spices to feed in the gardens
and to gather lilies," and to "eyes like
fish pools," and to the voice of the tur-
tle dove as heard in the land. I think
it was when Solomon was s,howing the
Queen of Sheba through these gardens
that the Bible says of her : "There re-
mained no more spirit in her." She
gave it up.
But all this splendor did not make
Solomon happy. Ono day, after getting
back from his morning ride, and before
the horses had yet been cooled off, and
rubbed down by the royal equerry,
Solomon wrote the memorable words,
following my text, like a dirge played
after a grand mnrch, " Beluild all was
vanity and vexation of spirit, and there
WAS no profit under the sun." In other
words, -1 It don't pay !" Would God
that we may all learn the lesson that
this world cannot produce happiness !
At Marseilles there isa caatellated house
on high ground crownea with all that
grove and garden can do, and the whole
place looks out upon as enchanting a
landscape as the world holds, water and
hills clasping hands in a perfect be-
witchment of scenery, but the owner of
that place is totally blind, and to him
all goes for nothing, illustrating the
truth. that, whether one be physically
or morally blind, brilliancy of surround-
ings cannotgive satisfaction. But
tradition says that when the "wise men
of the East were being guided by the
star on the way to Bethlehem, they,
for a little while, lost sight of the
star, and in despair and exhaustion
came to a well to drink, when look-
ing down into the well they saw the
star reflected in the water, and that
cheered them, and they resumed their
journey, and I have the notion that
though grandeur and pomp of surround-
ings may not afford peace, at the well
of God's consolation close by, you may
find happiness and the plainest cup at
the well of salvation may hold the
brightest star that ever shone from the
he Aa vi tehnost.1
gh these Solomonic gardens are
in ruins, there aro now growing there
flowers that are to be found nowhere
else in the Holy Land. How do 1 Ile -
count for that ? Solomon sent out his
ships and robbed the gardens of the
whole earth for flowers and planted these
exotics here, and these particular
flowers are direct descendants of the
foreign plants he imported. Mr. Mos-
hullam, a Christinn Israelite, on the
very site of these royal grirdens, has in
our-ility, by putting in his osit spade,
demoustrattd that the ground is only
SEEP WENT DOWN THE STEPS, SNUFFING
suseueocisev.
they were to try their fates by jinn pi ng
over tlet candles. These -represented in
rotation all the months Or the year, and
the to extinguished be the jumping
would be the month of matrimony. It
they put out none at all, that would he
sign they wore to be old maids.
'rho rending room g1.1. jumped first.
and was at 01100 laid on the shelf et
single blessedness. The young ledv itt
pink knocked over two candleseivhich
proved she was to be ms 'Tied twico.
And then eame Emilv's turn.
Emily had borer holding hack, looking
on with tho ghost. of a laugh about the
corners of her divine menth ; and eow,
without 0 bend she stood up and gather-
ed together the slinele folds of her
brown -dress. Poor Dave, love sick to
the ears, flamed red as a peoey. "One.
two, three," counted somebody, 11)1(1
with 11 running jump, the illitdonna
whisked over the month of March.
"Oh, Miss Anderson," said the girl in
pink, as the smoking candle ley on the
floor, "you will be mauled in five
months.
The reading, room girl kissed het
without a word, and Dave agitSit chang-
ed color, bnt this time from red to whin,.
Then 80171610dy else declared that the
cleret mulling in the kitchen would be
ruined, and after they had all run out to
see. Emily said quite. simply to Dave;
"That's all right, Dave."
• "You see," she explained it fterwnrd to
the reading room girl, her fast friend
by now, "it was like this. I knew
there'd be ducking for apples lit Sulli-
van's and going down the steps back-
ward, end all the things to put men in
t"Mper W11,11 they've took memo:much
beer. and I just made rip my mind Dave
shouldn't go. and maybe got 1110 shindy
and be showing up at Eseex Market
Sunday itt 011i with lanetin Chill11111011
and 15itgoes, Any woman can keep
a man straight' it' she wants, and
there ain't malty in the world as good es
Dave. So, when I seen him in the
street that. night I just calls out : 'Hello,
Dave! You waster go to is Hal low mei
entertainmetur 'Dona 1rltti wors,
And then I wouldn't spent: another
word hut just to 'come along ; and I
don't think I'd have married Win on
earth II T hadn't, come here mid knocked
over the March candle."
And so, though the whole of Suffolk
street has not vet been tamed, two lov-
ing and divided hearts ere enide
and Ha Ilowiten and Theosophy are with-
out doubt good things,
,,,,, 1),(,A moil 'tarty.
This is the expression by which we
commonly desigeinte people in general
ot no very chive ted descriptioe. lu
011(1 0011-1:1101011 illustratod book, in -own,
Jones and Robinson is more or less thus
used. Similar expressions in other law
guasse 4 ma 1', perhaps, be interesting,
In French I seem to lin 'it seen Jean,
Pierre et Paul, hut a French lady tees
me she has never seen or Iterird it,
though Pierre, Peril et Jacques is not
'uncommon, and Pierre et Paul alone is
still more frequ hen rd.
111 (!erman, I 101 14' commonly met
with Ilitz und or oder) 1(Usiz, hut
Ileinz ail Kunz, Hans mill Kunz. Ham
oder Ines (which Fluesil translates
Smith or Jon(s), HMIS Oder 1 liti lt, Heinz
oder Bowe (and perhaps und miry he
substituted for oder in those Inst (WO),
and lcuitz mid Peter i.re also used. Tititz
und Benz is also met with, especially in
Switzerlaud.
The German also use I -Tack and Mack
and I Inc k and Piwk of "a motley crowd,
tag, rag and bobtail,' (Flugelf, but
these do not seem to he Christian il£A111,'S.
Alid. Curiously enough, they use two
Biblical Hebrew words, "Kred(h)i
und Medd.' also written "Kredi und
Pli-di."
In Italian, I find in "Mariette" (by I.
L, Vigo, S. Pier d'Arona, 1884, n. 2751.
a religious novol,VA limbic as explaining
all the important doctrines of the Bo-
man Catholic Church in a readable form
"Vi sono tanti Antenii it Frenceschi
Bartoinei," but a Tuscan lady tells me
thet this is not known In her pert ol
the country though they dn 1150 there
Coco, Baco ed Atitonio.—Notes and
Queries.
Atter st Bird in the Hood,
"Timmips' father snys he is going tc
cut him off with a shilling."
"What did Timmins say ?"
"He asked if lin couldn't arrange to
lcnve him out of the will entirely And
give him the shUling now."—Washing
ton Star.
Me.
waiting for the right call to yield just as
much luxuriance and splendor eighteen
hundred years after Christ as it yielded
Solomon one thousand years before
Christ. So all Palestine is waiting to
become the richest scene of horticulture,
arboriculture and agriculture.
Recent travellers in the Holy Land
speak of the.rocky and stoney surface of
nearly all Palestine, as an impassable
barrier to the future cultivation of the
soil. But if they had examined minute-
ly the rocks and atones of the Holy Land,
they would find that they are skeleton-
ized, and are being melted into the soil
and being for the most part Bluestone,
they are doing for that land what the
American and. English farmer does
when, at great expense and fatigue, he
draws his wagon load of lime and scat-
ters it on the fields for their enrichment.
As I looked upon this great aqueduct
of Palestine, a wondrous specimen of
aneient masonry, about seven feet high
two feet wide, eometimes tunneling the
solid rock and then rolling its waters
through stoneware pipes, an aqueduct
doing it work ten miles before It gets
to those three reservoirs,and then gath-
ering their wealth of refreshment
and pouring it on to the mighty city of
Jerusalem and filling the brazen sea of
her temple and the bathrooms of her
palaces and the great pools of Siloam,
and Hezekiah and Bethesda. I find that
our century has no monopoly of the
world's wonders, and that the conceited
age in which we live had betterlake in
some of the sails of its pride when it re-
members that it is hard work in later
ages to get masonry that will last fifty
years, to say nothing of the three
thousand, and no modern machin-
ery could lift blocks of stone like Borne
of those standing high up in the
walls ot Baalbec, and that the art of
printing claimed for recent ages, was
practiced by the Chinese fourteen hun-
dred years ago and that our midnight
lightning express rail train was fore-
seen by the prophet Nahum, when in
the Bible he wrote, '"I'he chariots shall
rage in the streets, they shall jostle one
against another in the broadways, they
shall seem like torches, they shall run
like lightnings," and our electric tele-
graph was foreseen by Job, when in the
Bible he wrote, "Canst thou send light-
nings that they may go and say unto
thee, "Here we are?' What is that
talking by the lightnings but the elec-
tric telegraph! 1 do not know but that
the electric forces now being year by
year more thoroughly harnessed may
liave been employed in ages extinct,
and that the lightnings all up and down
the sky have been running around like
lost hounds to find their former master.
Embalmment was a more thorough
art three thousand years ago than to-
day. Dentistry, that we suppose one of
the important arts discovered in recent
centuries, is proven to be four thousand
years old by the filled teeth of the
mummies in the museums at Cairo,
Egypt, and artificial teeth on gold plates
found by Belzoni in the tombs of depart-
ed nations. We have been taught that
Harvey discovered the circulation of the
blood so late as the seventeenth
century. Oh, no ! Solomon auuounces
it itt t cclesiastes, where first having
shown that he understood the spinal
cord, Silver -colored as it is, and
that it relaxes in old age, "the
silver cord be loosed," goes on to
compare the heart to a pitcher at a
well, for the three canals of the heart
to receive the blood like a pitcher, "or
the pitcher be broken at the fountain,"
What is that but the circulation of the
blood, found out twenty•six hundred
years before Harvey was born? After
many centuries of exploration and cal-
culation, astronomy findsout that the
world is round. Why, Isaiah knew it
was round thousands of years before
when in the Bible he said ; "The Lord
sitteth upon the circle of the earth."
Scientists toiled on for centuries and
found out refraction or that the rays of
light when touching the earth were not
straight, but bent or curved. Why,
Job knew that when ages before in the
Bible he wrote of the light x "It is
coming upon the chief cradle of all the
world, not lined with satin, httt strewn
with straw; not sheltered by a palace,
but covered by a barn; not presided
Over by a princess, but hovered over by
a peasant giri; yet a cradle ,the canopy
of which is angelic wings, and the tulle -
by of which is the first eh:datums carol
ever ming, and from which all the event
of the past, and all events of the future
have and must take date as being B. C.
Or A. D.—before Christ or after Christ.
All eternity past occupied in getting
ready for this cradle, and all eternity
to come to be employed in celebrating,
its consequences.
I said to the tourist companies plan-
ning our Oriental journey, "Put us in
Bethlehem in December, the place and
the month of our Lord's birth," and we
had our wish, 1 ain the only man who
has ever attempted to tell how Bethle-
hem looked at the season Jesus was
born. Tourists and writers are there in
February or March or April, when the
valleys are an embroidered sheet of wild
flowers, and anemones and ranunculus
are flushed as though from attempting
to climb the steeps, and lark and bull-
finch aro flooding the Or with bird -
orchestra. But I was there in Decem-
ber, a winter month, the barren beach
between the two oceans of redolence. I
was told I must not go there at that
season, told so befere I started, told so
in Egypt; the bhoks told me so ; alt
travelers that I consulted about it
told me so. But I was determined
to see Bethlehem the same month in
which Jesus arrivedand nothing could
dissuade me. Was 1 not right in want-
ing to know how the Holy Land looked
when Jesus came to it ? He did not
land amid flowers and song. When the
angels chanted on the famous birth'
night, all the fields of Palestine were
silent. The glowing skies were answered
by gray rocks. As Bethlehem stood
against a bleak wintry sky I climbed
up to it, as through a bleak wintry sky
Jesus descended upon it. His way
down was from warmth to chill, from
bloom ts barrenness, from everlasting
June to a sterile December. If 1 were
going to Palestine as a botanist, and to
study the flora of the land, I would go
in March, but I went as a minister of
Christ to study Jesus, and so I went in
December. I wanted to see how the
world's front door looked when the
heavenly Stranger entered it.
The town ot Bethlehem to my surprise
is in the shape ot a horseshoe,tlto houses
extending clear onto the prongs of the
horseshoe. The whole scene more rough
and rude than can be imagined. Verily,
Christ did not choose a soft, genial place
in which to be born. The gate through
which our Lord entered this world was
a gate of rock, a hard cold gate,and the
gate through which he departed was a
swing -gate of sharpened spears. We
enter a gloomy church built by
Constantine over the place in which
Jesus was born. Fifteen lamps, burn-
ing day and night and from century to
century, light our way to the spot which
all authorities, Christian and Jew and
Mohammendan. agree upon as being
the place of our Saviour's birth, and,
covered by a marble slab, marked by a
silver star sent from Vienna, and the
words 'el -fere Jesus Christ was born of
tho Virgin Mary."
Standing here at Bethlehem, do you
not see that the most honored thing in
all the earth is the cradle ? To what
else did loosened star ever point? To
what else did heaven lower balconies to
light filled with chanting immortals ?
The way the cradle rocks, the world •
rocks. God bless the niothers all She
world over! The cradles decides the
destinies of nations. In ten thousand of
thein are, this moment, the hands that
will yet give benediction of mercy or
hurl bolts of (loons, tho feet that will
mount the steps towards God or des-
cend the blasted way, the lips that
will play or blaspheme. Oh, the cradle !
It is more tremendous than the grave.
Where are most of the leaders of tha
twentieth century soon to dawn upon
u'? Are they on thrones? No. In
chariots ? No. In senatorial halls?
tth" No, In counting -houses ? No. They
turned as clay o e seal.
In the old cathedrals or England mod- are in the cradle. The most•tremendous
. d.
ern painters in the repair of windows thinsin the universe, annext to
are trying to make something as good
as the window painting of four hundred
years ago, and always failing by the
unanimous verdict of all who examine
God is to be a mother. Lord Shaftes-
bury said, "give me a generation
of Christian mothers, and I will
change the whole phaso of society in
and compare. The color and modern
twelve months." 0in . , thewhich you were cradle! For-
get not the one
painting fades in fifty years, while the rocked. Though old and worn out, that
color of the old masters is as well pre-
served after five hundred years as after cradle may be standing in attic or barn,
one year. I saw last summer on the forget not the foot that swayed it, the
walls of exhurned Pompeii paintings the lips that sang over it. the tears that
dropped upon it, the faith in God that
colors as fresh as though made the day
before though they were buried eighteen made way for it. The boy Walter Scott
hundred years ago. The making of
didwell when he spent the first five-
Tyrian purple is an impossibility now. guinea piece ho ever earned as a present
In or modern potteries we are trying
hard to make cups, pitchers and bowls
as exquisite as those exhumed from
Herculaneum, and our artificers aro at-
tempting to make jowelery for ear and
neck and finger equal to that brought
up from the mausoleums of two thou-
sand years before Christ. We have in
our time glass in all shapes and all
colors, but Pliny, more than eighteen
hundred years ago, described a mal-
leable glass which if throwii upon the
ground and dented could be pounded
Straight again by the hammer or could
be twisted around the wrists, and that
confounds all the glass manufactories
of our 011'ri time. I tried in Damascus,
Syria, to buy a Damascus blade, one of
those swords that could be beet double
or tied into a knot without breaking. I
could not get one, Why ? The nine-
teenth century cannot make a Damas-
cus blade. If wo go on enlarging our
cities We may after a while get a city
as large as Babylon, which was five
times the size of London.
These aqueducts of Solomon that I
visit to -day, finding them in good con-
dition three thousand years after con•
struction, make me think that the world
may have forgotten more than it now
knows. The great honor of our age is
not machinery, for the ancients had
some styles of it more wonderful ; nor
art, for the ancients had art more ex-
quisite and durable ; nor architecture,
for Roman Coliseum and Grecian Acro.
polis surpass all modern architecture ;
nor cities, for some of the ancient cities
were larger than ours in . the sweep of
their pomp. But our attempts must be
in moral achievement and Gospel vic-
tory. In that we have already sur-
passed them, and in that direction let
the ages push on. Let us brag less of
worldly achievement, and thank God
for moral opportunity. More good men
and good women is what the world
wants. Towards moral elevation and
spiritual attainment, let the, chief
struggle be. Tho source of all that, I
will show` you before sundown of this
day, on which wo have visited the pools
of Solomon, and the gardens of the
king.
We are on this December afternoon on
the way to the cradle of Him who called
Rims& greater than Solomon. We are
to his mother.
Standing in the chill khan of a
Saviour's humiliation, and seeing what
He did for us, I ask what have we done
for Thin. "There is nothing I can do,"
says one. As Christmas was approach-
ing the village church, a good woman
said to a group of girls in lowly and
straitened circumstances: "Let all
now do something for Christ,"
Atter the day was over, she
asked the group to tell her what
they had done. One said : "I could not
do much, for we are very poor, but I
had a beautiful flower I had carefully
trained in our home, and I thought
much of it. and I put that flower on
the church altar.'' And another saia
"1 could not do much for we are
very poor, but I can 'sing a little,
and so I went down to a poor sick wo-
man in the lane,
and sang as well as
I could, to cheer her up, a Christmas
song," "Well, Helen, what did you
do?' She replied: "I could riot do
much, but I wanted to do something for
Christ, and I could think of nothing else
to do, and so I went into the church after
the people who had been adorning
the altar had left, and I scrubbed down
the back altar stairs." Beautiful 1 I
warrant that the Christ of that Christian
day gavo her as much credit for that
earnest act as He may have given to
the robed official who,on that day, read
for the people the prayers of a resound-
ing service. Something for Christ 1
Something for Christ !
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Stanley
Council met at Varna, Nov. 19th,
1894, at 1 o'clock. Members all present.
Reeve in chair. Minutes of previous
meeting were read and signed. The
statement of poundkeeper Wm. Collins.
was accepted and the fees, $4.50,
ordered paid to Treasurer. By-law No.
11 appointing Deputy Returning
Officers, Thomas .Fraser, Thomas
Kinnard, 3, T. Cairns, Win. Bothwell
and Samuel Sterling was read and
passed. The following accounts were
ordered to be paid :—Dr. Armstrong,
for attendance on Mrs. Scotsmer,
$12.50; Johnston Bros., for sewer pipe,
$18.70; and H. and J. C. Kalhfleish for
timber, $19.05. The Clerk was instruct-
ed to have 25 copies of nomination and
election notices printed and distributed.
The following gravel accounts were
ordered to be paki :—John Gibson
$28.48, D. Gingrich • $38.40, Wm. Reed
$42.90, JosephFisher$11.60, Mrs. Mc-
Dougall, $18.88, Andrew Reid $53.20,
Robert Snowden $17.28, Richard Pen -
hale $2.80, and H. Diehl 80 ets. The
Reeve and Assessor were each paid $3
for selecting jurors and the clerk $3
for postage and stationery used for
Court of Revision. All pax -ties having
accounts against the Council are re-
quired to present them at next meet-
ing. Council then adjourned to meet
again on Saturday, December 15th, at
10 o'clock a. m.—J. T. CAIRN'S, Cleik
110 Room w 'tit ts I ss.
Col. James Russel Lowell told the
story that one of the gentlemen he met
In Chicago had a good deal to say of his
travels in Europe. Col. Lowell re-
marked that he greatly enjoyed the
French literature and that Geerge Sand
was one of his favorite author's.
"Oh, yes," exclaimed the Chicago
gentleman, "1 have had many a happy
hour with Sand."
"You know George Sand,thon?" ask-
ed Col. Lowell, with an expression of
surprise.
"Knew him? Well, I should rather
say I did," cried the Chicago man, and
then he added as a clincher: "I roomed
with him in Parts."—Chicago Record,
AVOID TROUBIE AT BOK
Use Only the Reliable Dia-
mon.d Dyes.
It is well known that the ladies of
Canada often experience triallk and
tribulations in the household maelage-
merit. These small but hritating
troubles can be avoided if a little care
and common sense is exercised.'
Women who go on suffering. these
little miseries have themselves to blame
as they suffer through their own care-
lessness and inexperience. To -day one
great source of annoyance in the
household is the use of poor imitation
dyes for domestic dyeing. In some
sections of our land, the ladies have
lifted up their voice against them in a
way which cannot be misunderstood:
These imitation dyes have caused not
only great loss of material and money -
but anger and headache as well. All
these domestic trials and tribula-
tions are avoided when Diamond
Dyes are used. By their use work
la_ well and quickly done ; results
are always grand, and the colors aro
brilliant and lasting. Ladies who have
used Diamond Dyes for the last ten
years know their great worth and pos-
sibilities. Avoid all imitation dyes,
and always insist upon getting Dia-
mond Dyes from your druggist or deal-
er,
'Keep 'mem." -
Don't be a woman with a daily tale of
woe.
Luckily for the women the majority
of them do not come under that head,
but there is already a sufficient number
of women who never have anythiug
pleasant to say for themselves. They
sing their griefs, their trials and tribu,
lations in 'every key. Every one of
their woes is worse than those one of
one else.
It is all very well once in a while,
and men really like to pity a woman,
and dote on her feminine frailty aid
troubles, but to be perpetually called on
to offer up daily condolences is more
than the good nature of the average
matt and his good opinion of the sex in
general will stand.
Moreover, if you are so unfortunate
as to possess a reliable grievance with
references that can't be disputed, donl
tell it to every man you meet. If you
are working in an office, don't think
every man in it must hear it stated in
detail. Don't roll you eyes upward and
look as if the sun and moon and thejoy-
ous little stars had been wiped out of
existence.
If all your trouble make you feel un-
utterably ill-tempered, get away some-
where by yourself and let the temper
loose on your own devoted head. Then
go back to the world and smilejust as if
you really enjoyed living, or could stand
it with pleasure.
Remember that neither men nor
other women really like the tale of woo
woman.—Chicago Times,
Clothes for the Emperor
Though the Gorman empero ploys
Berlin tailors he believes in gi 1g pro.
vincial employment also. In every
good-sized town there is a court tailor,
who occasionlly has the honor of supply-
ing the emperor with a uniform and as
his uniforms aro as diverse and numer-
oils as the stars of the heavens there is
good business done, especially as his
majesty Mere very materially from his
grandfather, who had his uniforms and
caps repaired and cleaned so often that
the tradespeople had to declare at last
the garments would bear no more reins
vation. The imperial Immure is al-
ways kept in stock by the tailors, se that
only the minute details are sent wit -n
an order is Overt, A tiltlie the
kaiser costs on an average ladvmon $ 10
and $60.